[뉴스] Are North Korean troops joining Russia’s war in Ukraine?

Russia’s army is forming a unit of some 3,000 North Koreans, a Ukrainian military intelligence source has told the BBC, in the latest report suggesting that Pyongyang is forming a close military alliance with the Kremlin.

[학술논문] Discursive Construction of Authoritarian Cooperation: A Comparative Media Analysis of DPRK-Russia Relations (2024-2026)

...qualitative terminology tracking, the study demonstrates that each regime emphasizes distinct areas that reflect its structural vulnerabilities and strategic needs. While Russia gradually adopts the term “alliance,” the DPRK employs an assertive yet internally differentiated narrative. The findings suggest that authoritarian cooperation is sustained not only through material exchange but also through discursive...

[학술논문] Destabilizing the Balance of Threat on the Korean Peninsula: The Russia-North Korea Military Alliance

This study addresses why South Korea, despite its military and economic superiority, remains deeply concerned about North Korea, particularly amid Pyongyang’s expand-ing military cooperation with Russia. It argues that the balance of power theory fails to explain this paradox, whereas Stephen Walt’s balance of threat theory provides a more convincing framework. Focusing on perceived intentions rather

[학술논문] Strategic Costs and Russia’s Shifting Calculus on Nuclear Assistance to North Korea

...underpinned that policy have now eroded. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union restrained North Korea’s nuclear program because proliferation would have undermined its own security, regional influence, and alliance control. In the post–Cold War period, Russia’s decline reduced these costs, but fears of regional instability and reactive proliferation still discouraged nuclear assistance. Since 2017, two structural...

[학술논문] Opening Pandora's Box: Is South Korea's Nuclearization Feasible and Desirable?

The nuclear armament debate has become prominent in contemporary South Korean politics, driven by security concerns toward North Korea's nuclear development and the credibility of U.S. extended nuclear deterrence. The Trump 2.0 Presidency has further heightened the debate, with advocates claiming strategic opportunities and necessities for South Korea's nuclear independence. This article examines the

[학술논문] Inter-Korean Relations in 2025: The Lee Administration's Pragmatic Recalibration after Yoon

...structurally constrained by alliance modernization, North Korea's hardened doctrine, and heightened great-power competition. The review surveys domestic political developments, the changing dynamics of the US–ROK alliance, trilateral security coordination, and relations with Russia and China in the context of inter-Korean relations. By situating domestic political change within alliance and great-power dynamics...

[해외] A blueprint for a US-South Korea combined multi-domain task force

...the US-Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance. The challenge for the alliance is to enhance deterrence while accounting for changing strategic and operational realities. In the latest US National Defense Strategy (NDS), Washington outlined its expectations that Seoul leverage its robust defense industry to assume greater responsibility for its own defense within the alliance, while continuing to rely on the...

[해외] Tracing Russian Linkages in North Korea’s Expanding Nuclear Complex

...has also gained experience fighting in Russia and exposure to drone warfare and tactics. Since the invasion of Ukraine, the scale of cooperation has come to mirror that of a full-fledged military alliance details about technology transfers and the full extent of cooperation remain opaque. A growing body of indicators, however, suggests that Moscow may be playing a larger role in Pyongyang’s military...

[해외] Building a Robust U.S.-ROK Cyber Alliance

This report, Building a Robust U.S.-ROK Cyber Alliance: A Joint Cyber Resilience Strategy, examines how the United States and South Korea can strengthen bilateral cyber cooperation in response to an increasingly complex and transnational threat environment. As cyber operations from North Korea, China, and Russia grow in scale and sophistication, the report argues that existing approaches are insufficient...

[해외] Should Japan change its approach to North Korean denuclearization?

...complicated the Northeast Asian security environment. In response, Japan has pursued a dual strategy toward the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia: enhancing integrated deterrence through the Japan-U.S. alliance and deepening cooperation with South Korea, while promoting multilayered trilateral security cooperation. In recent years, Japan has intensified its cooperation with South Korea, consistent with Japan’s...

[해외] Why Japan and South Korea Won’t Go Nuclear

In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has intensified. The eminent diplomat Henry Kissinger predicted in 2023 that Japan would go nuclear within the decade. The international relations scholar John Mearsheimer has made the point that nuclearization by Seoul and Tokyo would be the “logical